ABC | Volume 110, Nº3, March 2018

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia - Volume 110, Nº 3, March 2018 Epidemiology Urbanization is Associated with Increased Trends in Cardiovascular Mortality Among Indigenous Populations: the PAI Study Anderson da Costa Armstrong, Ana Marice Teixeira Ladeia, Juracy Marques, Dinani Matoso Fialho de Oliveira Armstrong, Antonio Marconi Leandro da Silva, Jeová Cordeiro de Morais Junior, Aldina Barral, Luis Claudio Lemos Correia, Manoel Barral-Netto, João A. C. Lima .....................................................................................................................................................................page 240 Short Editorial Cardiovascular Diseases in Indigenous Populations: An Indicator Of Inequality Airton Tetelbom Stein .....................................................................................................................................................................page 246 Original Articles Exercising Sports Practices and Cardiovascular Risk in Teenagers Carlos Scherr, Leonardo Corrêa Castro Fabiano, Renata Leborato Guerra, Luciano Herman Juacaba Bel m, Ana Carolina Gurgel Câmara, Adriana Campos .....................................................................................................................................................................page 248 Moderate Continuous Aerobic Exercise Training Improves Cardiomyocyte Contractility in Β 1 Adrenergic Receptor Knockout Mice Aurora Corrêa Rodrigues, Antônio Jos Natali, Daise Nunes Queiroz da Cunha, Alexandre Jayme Lopes Dantas Costa, Anselmo Gomes de Moura, Miguel Araújo Carneiro-Júnior, Leonardo Bonato F lix, Patrícia Chakur Brum, Thales Nicolau Prímola-Gomes .....................................................................................................................................................................page 256 Hypertension Exercise Training Attenuates Sympathetic Activity and Improves Morphometry of Splenic Arterioles in Spontaneously Hipertensive Rats Marina de Paiva Lemos, Gustavo Ribeiro da Mota, Moacir Marocolo, Carla Cristina de Sordi, Rosângela Soares Chriguer, Octávio Barbosa Neto .....................................................................................................................................................................page 263 Heart Failure Natriuretic Peptide and Clinical Evaluation in the Diagnosis of Heart Failure Hemodynamic Profile: Comparison with Tissue Doppler Echocardiography Gustavo Luiz Gouvêa de Almeida Junior, Nadine Clausell, Marcelo Iorio Garcia, Roberto Esporcatte, Fernando Oswaldo Dias Rangel, Ricardo Mourilhe Rocha, Luis Beck-da-Silva, Fabricio Braga da Silva, Paula de Castro Carvalho Gorgulho, Sergio Salles Xavier .....................................................................................................................................................................page 270 Review Article Practical Implications of Myocardial Viability Studies Wilter dos Santos Ker, Thais Helena Peixoto Nunes, Marcelo Souto Nacif, Claudio Tinoco Mesquita .....................................................................................................................................................................page 278